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"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it" - Aldous Huxley
The majority of ADs are dum-dum pills, especially in the west. Even the serotonin hypothesis of SSRIs has been mostly deboonked.
If you're not feeling right then possibly it's 'cus you're not living right & something needs changing, but ADs blunt your emotional response to things which you should be enjoying / disliking. And nice sexual dysfunction, stupid.
1000s of years of evolution are now being faced with increasingly rapid societal change, overtaking potential evolution & reward mechanism adaptation.
An expectation of people to feel rewarded & fulfilled for being a mere cog in a machine whereby they're constantly reminded of how replaceable they are.
Maybe that office party will give a veneer of happiness, instagram filtered of-course since even the real colours or otherwise interesting imperfections might render the whole facade questionable.
Sadness and anxiety are "normal". Discontent is "adaptive". Everyday emotional pain is part of "what makes us human". Maybe you shouldn't shut down those feelings, they might just be guiding you in the right direction, even if society seems like it's blocking your path.
It's not all bad for the sad (not medical advice): There are antidepressants which improve cognitive/sexual function (or remove depression-induced deficit), lack emotional blunting, & even increase testosterone in men... all stuff which goes against the current required wagey obedience, I'm not saying it's a conspiracy with this particular AD (Moclobemide), but sadly most doctors don't understand (not trained in) the pharmacokinetic differences between a reversible & irreversible MAOI, so are often scared to prescribe.
There are other ones, but I try to be a bit responsible.
The majority of ADs are dum-dum pills, especially in the west. Even the serotonin hypothesis of SSRIs has been mostly deboonked.
If you're not feeling right then possibly it's 'cus you're not living right & something needs changing, but ADs blunt your emotional response to things which you should be enjoying / disliking. And nice sexual dysfunction, stupid.
1000s of years of evolution are now being faced with increasingly rapid societal change, overtaking potential evolution & reward mechanism adaptation.
An expectation of people to feel rewarded & fulfilled for being a mere cog in a machine whereby they're constantly reminded of how replaceable they are.
Maybe that office party will give a veneer of happiness, instagram filtered of-course since even the real colours or otherwise interesting imperfections might render the whole facade questionable.
Sadness and anxiety are "normal". Discontent is "adaptive". Everyday emotional pain is part of "what makes us human". Maybe you shouldn't shut down those feelings, they might just be guiding you in the right direction, even if society seems like it's blocking your path.
It's not all bad for the sad (not medical advice): There are antidepressants which improve cognitive/sexual function (or remove depression-induced deficit), lack emotional blunting, & even increase testosterone in men... all stuff which goes against the current required wagey obedience, I'm not saying it's a conspiracy with this particular AD (Moclobemide), but sadly most doctors don't understand (not trained in) the pharmacokinetic differences between a reversible & irreversible MAOI, so are often scared to prescribe.
There are other ones, but I try to be a bit responsible.